The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

If life has felt chaotic, this is why.

In just a few decades, humanity went from knowing only our eight planets to cataloguing over 6,000 exoplanets orbiting distant stars — a revolution in our understanding of what a “planet” can be.

An orb with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new finds with surprising parallels in fiction are rewriting our understanding of the universe. Astrophysicists are uncovering planets ...